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VLM Slovenia plans Belgrade service

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VLM Airlines plans to introduce services between Maribor and Belgrade this October, linking the two cities for the first time in over two decades. According to Belgrade Airport, flights are scheduled to commence in October and run five times per week, Monday through Friday. Although the Slovenian carrier itself is yet to confirm the new route launch, it has indicated its intention of starting operations to the Serbian capital on several occasions. VLM has noted that, "New routes for our winter schedule are coming soon". Belgrade Airport has listed slot requests for the new service as operating with a midday arrival, and a departure at 13.00 local time.

VLM Airlines has previously said that, in addition to Belgrade, it will eventually serve Berlin, Hamburg, London, Podgorica, Zurich, Xi'an, Chongqing and Nanchang. The carrier operated its first two seasonal routes out of its base in Maribor to Split and Dubrovnik during August and has been engaged in a number of charter flights from Italy to Croatia, Greece and Montenegro this summer. "We are already negotiating with some tour operators for the 2018 summer season, when you can expect a broader program with more frequencies. We are also trying to define our winter flight schedule which will begin on October 29. We will be revealing more shortly. With the Fokker 50 aircraft, we will continue operating ad hoc charters. Because of the aircraft's size, there is a lot of interest for such flights", the airline said. In addition to its three Fokker 50 turboptops, VLM intends on adding a jet-engine aircraft to its fleet during the fourth quarter. Fokker 70s, Airbus A320s and A330s are all expected to join the airline in the coming period.

Scheduled flights between Maribor and Belgrade have not operated since the break-up of the former Yugoslavia in 1992. Previously, JAT Yugoslav Airlines maintained services between the two cities, launching operations on May 26, 1976. At the time, flights to Maribor were primarily targeted at Yugoslav nationals living in southern Austria. Services between Slovenia and Serbia resumed in the early 2000s. The bilateral air agreement between the two countries at the time limited the national carriers of each nation to operating only one destination the other had not covered, with JAT introducing operations to Ljubljana and Adria commencing services to Pristina. Today, Air Serbia runs twelve weekly flights between the Serbian and Slovenian capitals. Last year, start-up airline AWEX Croatia secured a Swiss charter contract to operate services from Zurich to Belgrade via Portorož. Flights were maintained once per week with a 34-seat Saab 340B turboprop, however, the route was not resumed this year.

I agree, LJU is way more important to be reducing frequencies further, especially since you get a good mix of point to point and transfer passengers. Also this route is important for Etihad as well since they get a lot of passengers for their flight to Abu Dhabi from this route.

There are a few underserved regional cities Air Serbia should have started. In my opinion Maribor, Mostar, Zadar, Nis and Pristina would work well. I also think Budapest would have worked if they had some proper planning around it.

Yes! It would be great especially since Air Serbia's morning flight to Vienna would offer great connections to and from the United States. Right now connections to Belgrade are not ideal and they require around 4 hours of waiting at VIE.

Naturally from a strategic point of view, SkyTeam or oneworld would make more sense but I fear ASL has little to offer.

SkyTeam would make the most sense given JU's tight relationship with Air France, KLM and Aeroflot. Unfortunately JU's regional network is not getting any stronger which could have been one of its greatest advantages. They could have become for SkyTeam what Malev used to be for oneworld.

A wise move for Air Serbia would be to offer luggage free tickets to Ljubljana since there are a lot of business people flying this route who don't need luggage. Many of them fly in the morning and return in the evening.

They are quite expensive in ZAG, every time I look for flights to Europe they are never under €400. I don't know how they fill flights. If you are staying in Vienna for more than three days then the fares are around €140 which is ok.

Of course not. Poverty and alcoholism is rampant there. Unemployment too (many not registered). If you find a work in Austria its ok. Maribor and east Slovenia are way lower than of course Czech Republic and Slovakia. Worse than larger areas of Romania too. Purchasing power parity there is nearly 50% lower than in richer west part of Slovenia. You can read the Eu statistics data. For the Eu Slovenia is divided statistically in 2 regions. Huge difference west versus east. Even the procapita number of pet dogs in Maribor is way lower than in Ljubljana. The atmosphere in Maribor is extremely depressive. The only exception is football. As I'm familiar with the area: houses, real income in the Maribor region is worse than Zakarpaty region (many working abroad! or supported by Hungary) in Ukraine. If you have a government job you are well in Maribor but as soon as you have an opportunity you move to Ljubljana or the coastal area.

"Of course not. Poverty and alcoholism is rampant there. Unemployment too (many not registered). If you find a work in Austria its ok. Maribor and east Slovenia are way lower than of course Czech Republic and Slovakia. Worse than larger areas of Romania too. Purchasing power parity there is nearly 50% lower than in richer west part of Slovenia. You can read the Eu statistics data. For the Eu Slovenia is divided statistically in 2 regions. Huge difference west versus east. Even the procapita number of pet dogs in Maribor is way lower than in Ljubljana. The atmosphere in Maribor is extremely depressive. The only exception is football. As I'm familiar with the area: houses, real income in the Maribor region is worse than Zakarpaty region (many working abroad! or supported by Hungary) in Ukraine. If you have a government job you are well in Maribor but as soon as you have an opportunity you move to Ljubljana or the coastal area. "

This is complete nonsense, yeah is not all flowers, but your writing is way exaggerating and mostly not true. Romania and Ukraine, really??.

According to Statisicni urad RS, the average salary in LJ is 1828€ and in MB 1525€. But that Anonymous presented MB as Mordor. It's incredible how many BS can one hide behind anonymity. This should be changed (hint to mods).

Live in Bucharest is way way better then in Maribor. Working in the private sector or international companies in Bucharest (public sector sadly not soo) is heaven compared to Maribor. Purchasing power in Bucharest is way higher than Maribor. Look at Eu data. Average salary data for Maribor are misleading: many people are not included in the statistics. Of course public sector (salary) in Maribor is excellent because most prices are way lower than e.g. Ljubljana, Gorenjska and Primorska region but for the rest poverty is rampant. Have you been and lived in these places? Just Slovenians trying to hide to outsiders (even the neighbors) their struggle. Comparing the quality of nearly all new houses (people somehow obsessed with them in both countries) in the Ukrainian border area with Hungary with the Maribor and Stajerska region. Zakarpatia region in Ukraine wins hands down. Most people there working abroad and working a lot so this is possible. It's like in the West where people not knowing Slovenia are assuming we are living in poverty then they are surprised when they visit here. Same for us compared to e.g. Bucharest or Czech, Slovak Republic (!) etc.

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